Italian murder trial: ‘I find it hard to kill a fly’

A MAN accused of murdering British exchange student Meredith Kercher when she refused to take part in a sex game insisted yesterday that he was not violent, telling a court: “I find it hard to kill a fly.”

Italian Raffaele Sollecito, 24, said: “I have nothing to do with this case. I’m not a violent person... People who know me know that I find it hard to kill a fly.”

Kercher, 21, from Coulsdon, Surrey, was found dead in her bedroom in the house in Perugia, Italy, which she shared with Sollecito’s ex-lover Amanda Knox and others during her year abroad. Her throat had been slit and her semi-naked body was partially covered by a duvet. Sollecito told court in Perugia: “I’m the victim of a judicial error.”